A week later and miles away from the Allied victory at Saint Mihiel, North Carolina soldiers serving with the British were placed in the frontline trenches facing the Hindenburg Line, a formidable German trench system. The battle began with North Carolina doughboy engineers erecting and repairing barbed-wire entanglements in no-man’s-land followed by three days of artillery bombardment. The main attack came a few days later. Within three hours of attacking, North Carolina soldiers were the first troops to capture the “insurmountable” German trenches. Soon Allies captured the remnants of the village of Bellicourt.